One new technique that I'm trying out right now is to boil my life down to what I need and what I want. I take the things that I need to do, or at least am too afraid to do without, set limited but reasonable times to do them, and then force myself to do them at those times. Once the time is up, I refuse to work beyond it. In the time that I have free, I pursue the thing or things that I have decided I really want rather than need to maintain the status quo.
This way isn't perfect, and I am looking for a better way that doesn't have me doing things that I don't want to do, but until then it will suffice. The thing is, I didn't figure out what it was I wanted to do until I created time for myself that I literally had nothing that I had to do with. So, if you're willing to buckle down and do all your hard work at one time (that's an exaggeration, I myself divide my 20 weekly hours of homework throughout 4 days), then you can have open time for yourself to at least consider what you want to do without worrying about what you need to do.
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We must conquer ourselves, and allow our selves to conquer the world. |